skia in freebsd

[Jan Beich]

phryk <phryk at wzff.de> writes:

> Hey there, I know that the freebsd port of firefox *somehow* builds
> the skia graphics engine for freebsd, but even having firefox installed
> I seemingly don't have any skia-specific files, so I think another port
> that'd need skia could not "just" depend on firefox as dependency when
> needing skia.

FreeBSD is supported since https://github.com/google/skia/commit/3138d36f9843
Firefox builds a subset of Skia after converting GN to Mozilla build system,
see https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/gfx/skia/generate_mozbuild.py

Standalone build is not supported because
- Upstream discourages packaging due to lack of releases
- Consumers may modify Skia code, making a system package useless
- Google rejected Chromium patches, so Skia may be similar, see
  https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-dev/b57hDs8yE4g/5tXefZ74AQAJ
- Upstreaming requires signing CLA which requires Google Account
  which is impossible to sign up via Tor

> Since skia from git just complains about "unknown system" when trying
> to build it, I thought I'd write and ask if whoever is behind this mail
> address could maybe possibly move their magic to make skia work into a
> separate skia port for freebsd so other applications depending on it
> can be more easily added to the ports collection.

I'm not interested. Maybe try chromium@ or ports at .

> In particular I'm interested in figuring out whether I can make the
> cool and new SVG-based 2D animation software enve[1] run on
> freebsd since I've been waiting for software like this for over a
> decade now. :P

Try looking at CI config or how Linux distributions package. For one,
network usage during build (forbidden by poudriere for reproducibility)
may give you more trouble.